Blast from the past - Comet Holmes

[lukebl]

Hi folks, having just moved house and temporarily without an observatory or my beloved telescopes, I've been browsing my old images and came across this one of my earliest imaging efforts.

It's Comet 17P/Holmes, which I captured in early December 2007 with a Canon 400d, stock lens, and manually guided with a wobbly EQ1 mount. It had had a spectacular outburst, and I remember it being brightly visible to the naked eye overhead in the evening sky, as an eerie circular glow. The brightish star to the left of the comet is Iota Persei.

Anyone else remember this one? A lot has happened to me over the intervening eight years, some good, some very bad, but at least I'm still here. Older, greyer, slightly damaged, slightly wiser, and still alive!

 

 

[laudropb]

Nice image and a good reminder of an old friend.

[Psychobilly]

Ah yes..

I was piggybacking  a Meade DSI-C with camera lenses on a Meade ETX-105C in those days...

The outburst co-incided with the arrival of my 25x100 bins and I thought there was something wrong with them...

Peter...

 

 

 

[mwayne]

It was quite circular and bright and compact when I first saw it, I was thinking a supernova or nova!

[Peter Drew]

One of my favourites. Must have been during a period of a good succession of clear nights as I seemed to amass a large quantity of video at the time. It was  also my first attempt at photographing a comet and my one DSLR image is still on my wall. I started video observation with a 16" SCT coupled to a Watec 120n+, gradually adding focal reducers as the comet increased in size. I ended up using a Sky90 to still fit it in the frame. Happy nights.  

[Pete Presland]

A nice reminder of an intriguing comet!

[Davey-T]

Remember it well, went out one night looked up and thought I'd discovered something until I looked on 'tinternet, lol

Dave

[r3i]

A very unusual comet.  That brought back memories of my early imaging days when I was fumbling around with a Meade DSI through an LX90

[Phil Fargaze]

I remember this well, quite an exciting and sudden event! I was doing a bit of sketching in those days and here is my log book entry.